"General, we have found the news!"

A fast horse rushed into the valley quickly. The scout jumped off his horse and knelt forward halfway to salute, reporting to Cao Hanchen who had been waiting here: "This morning, about 30,000 large food reinforcements had appeared in the Pamir Mountains to guard the captive force, and it is estimated that they will be able to go down to Pantuo Mountains tonight."

"It's true that it was not as expected by the governor." Cao Hanchen nodded slightly. He immediately ordered several scouts behind him and said, "You go and deliver the letter to the governor immediately. You must deliver the letter to the camp within two days."

"As for the order!" Several scouts bowed and turned over the horses. More than a dozen horses stirred up the rolling yellow dust and galloped towards Shule.

At this time, the Shule prince Pei Guangguang next to him finally couldn't help asking: "General Cao, I am already sure to take down the guards of the Pamirs. As long as I keep it there, the Dashi Army will not be able to enter and exit. I really don't understand why Zhang Shangshu still wants to increase the reinforcements of the food? It's a risk."

Cao Hanchen patted his shoulder and smiled and said, "My governor will never focus on one game or another. He has expanded the food reinforcements and has to come in after careful consideration. With his long-term consideration, you should not ask too much."

Pei Guangguang shook his head. He still couldn't understand Zhang Huan's actions. After thinking about it, he asked again: "What should we do now?"

Cao Hanchen laughed, "Since the cannibal reinforcements have arrived, it's time for us to close the door."

After saying that, he turned around and looked at Pei Guangguang and said, "The capture of the Pamirs is related to the overall situation, so I'll ask you for this matter."

Pei Guangguang clasped his fists and said in a deep voice: "Please rest assured, General, someone under my command knows a secret passage that leads directly to the back of the castle, and he will definitely be able to capture the Palacio."

Two hours later, the three thousand Tang troops and five thousand Shule troops marched at night and galloped towards the Pamirs a hundred miles away.

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In the Tang army camp, Zhang Huan came to Cheng Lie's camp accompanied by several generals. In yesterday's battle, Cheng Lie's left leg was pierced by a javelin of a big cannibal, and his bones were injured. At this moment, he was lying on the bed and scolding the military doctor who was healing him, "What does it mean to not get out of bed for a month? My injury is that... Oh! Take a gentle move, is my injury that severe?"

The military doctor smiled bitterly, and he didn't dare to say anything while cursing him. He quickly changed the medicine for this unreasonable big officer. Seeing that he didn't say anything, Cheng Lie became even more angry, "I don't care! You are a military doctor, so you have to find a way to get me into the field within three days, otherwise you will be put on the battlefield, and it's better not to be this military doctor!"

"General Cheng is so angry that he has not been satisfied with the battle, right!"

The voice of the governor Zhang Huan suddenly came from the door of the tent. Cheng Lie was so shocked that he was about to jump up instinctively, but was held down by the fast-witted military doctor, "General, don't act rashly!"

Zhang Huan slowly walked into the tent, looked at him and sneered: "I heard that you didn't even know that your bones were cracked. I informed the military doctor this morning, which was very good! You are indeed worthy of the word "strong".

Cheng Lie heard the dissatisfaction in the governor's tone. He did not dare to say anything. His big head was lowered deeply. Zhang Huan said nothing more. Seeing a big cannibal gun standing beside the bed, he reached out to take it, but he sank suddenly. He then realized that the cannibal gun was made of pure iron, completely different from the ordinary wooden-handled iron-headed cannibal gun, which weighed at least thirty pounds. Zhang Huan smiled suddenly and said, "I said how could a big cannibal gun pierce the heavy armor of the Mo Daojun? It was indeed not an ordinary cannibal gun."

"There are words on it!" the big man said in a muffled voice.

Only then did Zhang Huan realize that there was a line of large food text engraved on the gun, all of which were written by him that he didn't recognize. He couldn't help but ask, "How do you know that this is a personal name?"

"I have asked, this name is Abu Moyali." Cheng Lie raised his head and exhaled for a long breath: "I know who this person is. I have seen him on the battlefield. He should be their coach, riding a black horse like a monster, with a figure like mine."

"So you are afraid that you can't go to the battlefield to fight him, so you want to hide your injuries, right?" Zhang Huan's eyes suddenly became sharp. He stared at Cheng Lie's eyes and shouted loudly: "What if you are not injured on the battlefield? It would be fine if you were killed by him, what about the brothers! Have you ever thought about it for them? It took us three years to train this Wanmo Dao Army. Did you ruin them because of your momentary intent?"

Cheng Lie's face turned red with his head down again, and he did not dare to raise it. The other dozen generals also trembled and said nothing. The governor had such a big temper. Zhang Huan paced in the tent with his hands behind his back, his face extremely gloomy, "How many times have I said that you are no longer soldiers. Everything needs to be considered. At least you are the generals of Lang and the generals of the Central Army. You have tens of thousands of brothers under your command. You will still be a prince in the future, but do you really have the idea of ​​a prince? Just because I did not order to pursue the great cannibals yesterday, they were all dissatisfied. They went back to slam the table and scolded the personal soldiers, thinking I didn't know?"

Zhang Huan's eyes were as sharp as a knife. He swept over the generals one by one and finally stopped on Wang Siyu's face, "Do you really think I'm afraid of the Dashi Cavalry? I'm useless even the Thunderbolt Chariot. Don't I know the effect of gunpowder bullets in the Dashi Army? I only have 50,000 Dashi Army, without even bows and arrows, and half of them are weak miscellaneous troops. I really don't know if the battle can be decided?"

Speaking of this, Zhang Huan snorted heavily. He walked to the tent with his hands behind his back, staring at Shule City in the distance with a gloomy face. The tent was silent and no one dared to speak. After a long time, Zhang Huan calmed down a little and tried to say in a gentle tone: "There has been a drastic change in the court. Normally, I should rush back immediately, but I am really worried about the battle with the cannibals, and there is no one who can completely relieve me!

If Lou Wuji is here, why should I do everything myself?"

Wang Siyu's face was already red with shame. He knew that the governor was actually targeting his dissatisfaction with his temper when he went back last night. He lowered his head and did not dare to say a word. Zhang Huan glanced at him and saw that he had already admitted his mistakes, he slowly said: "If you want to look at him ten years later and twenty years later, it may be a little difficult for you, but......"

Speaking of the word "but", Zhang Huan suddenly turned around and looked at everyone and said, "But at least you should think about the brothers who were expeditioning Saiye. The more big food troops we annihilate here, the less pressure they put there, so I am not in a hurry to annihilate Shule's big food troops. Use them as bait to attract more reinforcements. Moreover, the more enemy troops we annihilate, the more advantage we will have in negotiations with the big cannigiri in the future. Don't you understand?"

Everyone was ashamed, and Wang Siyu took the lead in kneeling down and said, "I know the crime, please punish the governor!"

Following Wang Siyu, everyone knelt down and said, "Please punish the governor!"

"Give me medicine! I've punished you all, who will fight? Get up!"

Zhang Huan smiled and shook his head, "If you don't understand anything in the future, just ask in person. Don't complain behind me, as it made my ears hot all night last night and I didn't even sleep well."

Everyone laughed, and the atmosphere in the tent eased for a moment. Zhang Huan waved his hand and said, "Sit down! Let's discuss military affairs here today."

Everyone sat on the ground, Zhang Huan pondered for a moment and said, "I received an urgent report from Cao Hanchen an hour ago. The 30,000 reinforcements from Dashi had already passed Tuopanling. Let's talk about how to deal with it?"

Everyone was excited at the same time. Besieging the city and attacking reinforcements was a certain strategy, but the governor mentioned this here, in fact, he was asking who was willing to lead troops to ambush the reinforcements. As soon as Zhang Huan finished speaking, three people immediately stood up to fight. One was deputy general Wang Siyu, the other was too general Li Dingfang, and the other was the chief spearman Liang Tingyu. Seeing that everyone guessed his intention, Zhang Huan stopped explaining. He immediately said to Wang Siyu and Liang Tingyu: "This battle is very critical. I will take charge of the camp here, General Wang is the main and General Liang is the deputy. You two bring 20,000 cavalry to ambush the Dashi Army. Be careful to beware of the wandering whistle of the Dashi people and don't be discovered by them."

"As for your order!" The two bowed and walked quickly outside the tent.

"Governor," Cheng Lie's thick lips moved, and said, "What should I do?"

"You?" Zhang Huan glanced at him and said coldly: "If you just want to be a soldier, then I will allow you to go to the battlefield."

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The night was thick, and the continuous Palacio Mountains could not be seen at first sight. On a steep ridge, an army of about three thousand people struggled to move along the slippery and narrow mountain road. After climbing to the highest point of a ridge, they went down from the other side of the mountain to the winding and winding valley shrouded in the darkness. For two days, they had always repeated the same road conditions, and they didn't know when they would be.

Cao Hanchen stood up straight and wiped the dense beads of sweat on his forehead. They had been walking on the mountain for two days. The two hamstrings were exhausted, and tired or secondly. The most serious thing was that this secret passage was too difficult. This intestinal path was embedded on the cliff, which was only two feet wide. Moreover, the mountain was inclined, so everyone could only walk sideways. On their left was a deep abyss. In addition, the mountain had thin ice and was extremely slippery and had no place to support him. If you were not careful, you would fall from the deep abyss. In fact, more than twenty brothers had fallen off the cliff and died.

They had been walking on this most difficult mountain road for three hours, and no one dared to speak. Everyone was silent and focused on their feet, fearing that they would be distracted as soon as they spoke.

After walking for about half an hour, the most difficult mountain road finally passed. The mountain ahead began to become smooth. The ground was covered with a layer of white snow, which had frozen into ice, and the feet became wider. The threat of death was gone. Everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief. Many people sat on the ground exhausted, gasping for breath.

Cao Hanchen leaned over to look down the mountain. Under the bright moonlight, he saw the Thunder Pantuo City that was cultivated on a steep high hill. Thunder Pantuo City is the capital of Thunder Pantuo Kingdom. It is surrounded by lush forests. There are large food and heavy army stationed inside, which blocked the necessary path to this ancient silk road. There are many traveling posts and guardhouses around the city, which cannot be reached from the front at all, but at this moment, they have already walked around the back of Thunder Pantuo City through the secret passage.

However, the city of Thunder Pantuo is not their goal today. Their goal is to build another castle on the mountain road. If you take this castle, Thunder Pantuo City will become a decoration.

"General Cao, that's where!" The guide pointed to the distance.

Cao Hanchen followed his fingers and saw a sudden cliff ahead, and under the cliff was a gray hillside. At the end of the hillside, the shadow of a castle could be vaguely seen, which seemed dark and hazy in the middle of the night.

All the soldiers stood up and stared at the castle, which was the Pamir Shouqiao Fort, which was the end of their trip. The guide was a subordinate of Pei Guangguang, who was about thirty years old and had a simple face. He was a native of the Thunder Pantuo Kingdom. His ancestors hunted in the mountains for a living and were very familiar with every grass and tree here. When he saw Cao Hanchen looking at the distance, he smiled and said, "The straight line is about three miles away, but there is a huge cliff ahead. He can only walk around the cliff. Although he cannot reach the city gate directly, he can fall down to the castle through a rope."

Cao Hanchen nodded and turned to Pei Guangguang behind him and said, "You lead two thousand people to wait here. I will bring one thousand people up first. After the battle begins, you will come and pick you up."

He waved his hand again, "Brothers, hold on, we must take down the castle before dawn."

A thousand Tang soldiers stood up one after another and followed the guide to head north again. This time the journey was relatively easy. Although it was just as difficult, without the threat of death from the cliffs, the speed of the crowd gradually accelerated. One hour later, a thousand Tang soldiers came to the cliff.

This is a huge cliff, covered with snow, and it is arc-shaped. The Tang army came from the north of the cliff. Under the cliff is a canyon path about dozens of feet wide, extending along the high canyon path to the foot of the mountain more than ten miles away. Although the slope is relatively steep, the road is very flat, and you can walk on horses and camels. At the highest end of the canyon, a majestic castle was built with huge stones. Pedestrians must pass through the castle to pass through the canyon. The original intention of building this castle was to collect taxes, but at this time, it became Wangxiang City, where the Tang army stopped the Great Food Army from returning west.

The canyon before dawn was silent and cold. The moon had already gone down the mountain, and black mist covered the valley. The first light of dawn had not yet emerged from behind the dark ridges. Looking down from the top of the mountain, the sky above the castle was pitch black, with a vertical distance of at least thirty feet.

At this time, the Tang army had already put down more than a dozen ropes. Cao Hanchen carried a horizontal knife and a bow and arrow and was about to go down first. The guide told him on the other rope next to him, "There are many huge dead vines on the cliff, which can be hidden."

Cao Hanchen nodded, and he jumped, "Swoosh!" with a slight sound, he had already glided more than three meters deep, and more than a dozen Tang troops lined up side by side. When the first row of Tang troops went down about ten meters, the second row of Tang troops also slid down, followed by the third row and the fourth row.

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The progress went very smoothly, as if to compensate them for two days of difficult marching. Cao Hanchen took the lead in touching the city wall. There was a gap of about one foot wide between the city wall and the stone wall. He listened intently for a moment, without any movement. He jumped gently and jumped onto the battlements silently, and then jumped into the city again.

He pulled out his knife and hid in a corner to observe whether there were any patrols. It seemed that the defenders in the city were paralyzed because of the existence of Thunderpantuo City in front. How could the enemy come from behind?

With a wave of his hand, the Tang army quickly jumped from the cliff into the city and immediately guarded the passage. Suddenly, with a 'smash!', a Tang army slid and knocked a loose shale into the crack. The shale pages bumped and finally made a dull sound of landing, which seemed particularly harsh in the quiet night.

Everyone suddenly tensed their nerves, held their breath, and listened to the movements around them. Finally, the sound of footsteps and a murmuring curse came from the aisle under the city.

Cao Hanchen tightly grasped the hilt of the knife and pressed against the wall after the aisle. His footsteps became louder and louder, and he heard a heavy breathing. A black shadow finally appeared in front of him.

Cao Hanchen pounced on him like a cheetah, covering his mouth from behind with his left hand, and cutting his throat with his right hand. His movements were neat and neat. The black shadow fell softly, without making any sound.

He listened to the stairs for a moment, but there was no movement. With a wave of his hand, the Tang army once again slid down from the cliff like a monkey. In just a quarter of an hour, more than 300 people came down.

At this time, the east sky turned white and the sky was already bright. It was time to start. Cao Hanchen waved his hand and said, "Come with me!"

Hundreds of Tang soldiers rushed into the city from two stone steps, east and west.
Chapter completed!